We had three boats out this day, myself, a coronado-15, and a Lido-14. Winds were really puffy. There were some times where the winds were below 10, and then would gust up to over 15. We had one nasty wind shift that took us aback.
There were a lot of cumulous clouds over the course so that accounts for the winds shifts. We had one downwind run where we brought the wind with us and made ups a lot of time on Joe. It's fun to do that, but I know there will be another day where the roles will reverse and someone will catch up to me. A terrible feeling, and I think that the good sailors know how to predict those things to minimize the loss or to maximize the gain.
Don Pearson took some photos, which I'll post here and also on the CLSC web site.
Posted by Bob at May 8, 2004 06:36 PM